I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course.

Take care of things close to home first. Straighten up your room before you save the world. Then save the world.

It is not easy writing someone a postcard. The size and shape of the card cut you down to size.

Not everyone is at the top of his or her game all the time - you can't be.

Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead. I found myself looking at my work as if I were at my own funeral.

So writing about love or having it infuse the poems that I'm writing has never been something I've set myself to do, except when I write a poem for my wife, for an occasion, such as our anniversary.

It seems more than likely that the translating of poetry is going to rub off on the translator if he or she is a poet.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos, ' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.

I appreciate my music is famous, but I'd rather my face wasn't so that I can just live a normal life.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

I have not come into this world to make men better, but to make use of their weaknesses.

I can't be one of those hipster guys with a beard when I have a hair campaign. I strive to look a little bit more... all-American.

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

The Beatles will exist without us.

True fans stick behind bands through thick and thin and we've been lucky enough to have some amazing fans.

Captain Nemo pointed to this prodigious heap of shellfish, and I saw that these mines were genuinely inexhaustible, since nature's creative powers are greater than man's destructive instincts.